Ben Stumpf

As a Boston-based documentary filmmaker and teacher, Ben loves to make films that raise awareness about social causes. He produced and edited a short piece for WGBH about the pros and cons of competition, and worked with his students on another WGBH short about the effects of climate change on New England fishing. He helped with camera, sound, editing, and research for a feature-length documentary, Traces of the Trade, which opened the POV season in 2008. He has produced awareness-raising short pieces on time banks, local currencies, immigration, and climate activism, and he cut the trailers for the 2009 and 2010 Boston Jewish Film Festivals. More recently he's been helping climate action groups get their message out.

Ben has taught high school creative technology (filmmaking, graphic and web design, animation and digital music) at Concord Academy for 14 years. He got his Masters in Documentary Film from Goddard College in 2009. He has been a student or Teaching Assistant in dozens of MMW's film workshops over the years, and has taught the Film & Video Teachers Workshop for the past five summers.

The school delivers degree and certificate programs, workshops, intensives, and cooperative labs geared to students pursuing creative work in fine arts and media-related professions. MMW+C is a welcoming community that provides lifetime opportunities to explore the practice and concepts of media arts in photography, filmmaking, design and book arts as well as the converging applications of these dynamic media forms. MMW+C embraces historical processes as well as leading-edge technologies in image making and narrative expression. MMW+C is committed to fostering creativity, culture, and human communication in the world.

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